JustLady. You're not only working model, but also taught in schools. What do you like more - the most to walk the runway, to participate in the filming or to teach others?
Cooking Gerasimov. One without the other can not exist, because in the model school to teach without having a model of experience, makes no sense. From one week to another change of fashion styles gait scheme shows, someone needs to go to the "empty" person, someone asks you to smile. All that you need to know in this spin.
I started to work quite late for a model in 17 years - was already starushechkoy. Quickly grabbed the highlights, so now and teach. I like to organize mini-shows, mini-presentation, which we put at the end of training.
Choose a topic exam (together the show we call the exam), select costumes, hairstyles, makeup, music, mood - it's very fascinating.
Examination performance (show)in HQOle studio model agency Slava Zaitsev
JL. That the work on the podium the most interesting?
V.Gerasimova. For me - three, two or minute access to the podium. The process of training lasts for a very long time. As a rule, when the show is scheduled for seven in the evening, asked to come to seven in the morning. All this time you mete, rehearse, waiting when you make up, pricheshut. Then dress up and finally come out. Output - the coolest because you are disconnected from everyday life and transform into a certain image.
JL. Do you feel fear when doing step is to go to the podium?
V.Gerasimova. No. I was worried only really my first show. But there were very complicated scheme, challenging director and crazy designers who were all afraid. And when the normal atmosphere - what worried? Fell - got up, went further.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia
JL.Happened to you something like that?
V.Gerasimova. At the last Fashion Week during the finals I fell shoes with his feet. Well, we had such a scheme is that we went out in groups - the crowd was not very noticeable.
JL.And it so happens that someone in front of you goes astray and breaks the logic of the passage?
V.Gerasimova. Sometimes girls are confused scheme. It was so that the model came to the podium and realized that he could not walk in the shoes because they are her great, and it is easier to take them off and walk barefoot. She took them off and walked barefoot.
Recently on the show used Pancake fog machine without checking it before. She let loose smoke that dissipated, but the donkey film of oil on the floor, and each model, leaving the podium and ending the show slipped. We had to literally climb over the wall. It looked like this, of course, ridiculous, but the model was not easy.
Photo: Pauline Kholodova
JL.It just depends on whether the director thought the show or not. As you yourself satisfied with appearances, probably much you take on a note?
V.Gerasimova. Of course, there are many nuances to light on musical accents. Many designers require that at some point in the composition came out specific model. Here it is necessary to calculate the interval between the outputs, as every girl should take the stand, measure time with a stopwatch. And the model to explain where it will be and how long.
JL. And how do invented impressions?
V.Gerasimova.All designers work in different ways. Some say the director: "This is my collection, I want them (the model) sailed" - and provide complete freedom. And some are more serious impressions, explain the concept, theme and have come up together with the director a story.
Take, for example, shows Alexander McQueen, who are always incredibly thought, stylized, it is a real show.
JL.You say that the schemes are constantly changing impressions, tell us what they are, which is important now?
V.Gerasimova. At one time it was fashionable to do shows with music without rhythm: waves, surf, birds singing. Under the background sounds models walked at the same pace. His first asked, and everyone else trying to catch. For a while, was relevant hard music, hardcore, then, on the contrary, melodic - models could go and dance. Despite the general trend still shows are always different, so you need to be able to go hard, soft, squatting, "swim", heels, flat shoes, sports shoes.
Photo: Olga Shurygina
JL.Just that you and teach? Tell us about the main types of gaits.
V.Gerasimova.In the model gait importantly - a step. He achieved in two ways: first - through the work of the hips. Step turns calm, smooth, elegant and feminine. The second - through the work of his knees. If high leg lift, strongly bending the knees of, also received a step, but he's already going to be tough, hard, brutal.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia
JL.What model of techniques can be useful in real life?
V.Gerasimova.Usually we do not pay attention to how we go. One shoulder above the other, on which hangs a bag, lower body forward and scratched - I usually go to university. What I primarily teach girls - a uniform posture and work the arms and legs. Hands should move quietly, smoothly, do not limp, crouch. Often it is simply not paying attention, but it's worth a watch and focus on gait - straightens his back, raise your chin and go beautifully.
JL. With whom do you do in school, who are your students?
V.Gerasimova.Mostly girls from 14 to 25 years.
JL.Is it possible to see at a glance who can go to the podium, and who will not be enough for this ability.
V.Gerasimova.Ability to eat at all. On the eye as it can be determined engaged girl ballroom, sport dance, gymnastics. Or never did nothing, and hardly worth it, poor thing. Learn to keep body and move correctly, all will master model gait. Still, each will have its own distinctive features, all the same will never walk. A skill comes only through training.
JL.But in addition to the waste of gait have something else, why it looks will be glued to this model on the catwalk?
V.Gerasimova. If the model understands the essence of the event, which involved at least slightly acquainted with the collection, at least know the name of the designer, it will be able to understand the idea. We do not show themselves, but the thing to create an image that the designer wanted to show the audience. We get used to it and complement that all said, "I want this dress, I want to look the same, be the same."
SAPHIRE STELLATA MAGAZINE, June 2012. Photo: Maya Tetter
JL.Do you think the statement that the models on display mannequins only, right?
V.Gerasimova.Manekenskaya part is that the model should be thin to sit on them any thing, even sewn bad. But some styles of clothing fit better on some specific figures, so one can choose to display a completely different girls to show on one pantsuit, another short skirt, the third - cleavage.
Photo: Daniel Malakhov
JL.What would you advise young women who are thinking about how to become a model?
V.Gerasimova.Do walk, prepare photos, consult with knowledgeable people, what are your chances. After all, there are insanely beautiful girls, but the photographs they simply can not watch something lacking - I do not know what. In general, if you want something, you just need to go and do.